it wasn t a panacea. it never is. sometimes these guys can be stopped if an officer catches them before the killing and they re prohibited, they could arrest him. if you stop him and they are not prohibited, you can t even do that. so it s good to have laws like that. those were enacted because of s oswald s dishonorable discharge. it s going to be a long investigation all night. and is there any group that wanted to hurt members of this congregation for their religious beliefs, for christians, their status, race, immigrant status, that s all possible. or is it a personal grudge, personal animosity. someone did him wrong in the church, someone helped somebody
remember, who botched the jfk assassination investigation in the first place causing numerous conspiracy theories to float around which, in fact, were proven flat wrong. the files they did release yesterday continue to feed some of those conspiracy theories with the revelations about oswald s visit to mexico city to see the soviet embassy. it is still not over. it seems clear to me the president generally does want to get all of this information out and release it. and he has now got to work through his agencies and intelligence chiefs to make sure they do it in a way that doesn t cause those risks but it has been a long time coming and it is hard to imagine just how many sources there are in there that still need to be protected. for our viewers at home a history lesson. the theory you re pointing to is oswald went to mexico city and actually met with soviet and cuban embassies in mexico
one of the 26 oswald titles from the early 20th century is the original big-eared creation of walt disney. absolutely essential to the disney story you. could say possibly there wouldn t be a mickey mouse without oswald. what i think is really interesting if you do the kind of compare and contrast of oswald the lucky rabbit alongside mickey mouse, you see real similarities. you ll see a visual smile that is very much the beginning of the kind of shaping of mickey mouse. although the duration of the silent film isn t very long, its place in global cinema history is immeasurable. to be able to find a film that is such kind of key little story from when the history of world cinema. and i think the great thing about disney is we all feel we own it. it is the in the west most people s childhoods. we all have that involvement.
i think for us it s a particular thrill that it was something that we had in our archive. destined for the rubbish dump, it was being thrown away bay london film company. and had it not been added to the bfi s archive, it would have certainly been lost forever. even though preserved in specially cooled vaults, there is still a level of nervousness for archivers, opening something for the first time in years. when you we pull the can off the shelf, you re apprehensive because you really hope it is what you think it is. and then you start to unwind it, on to the wining bench and start to see some of the frames. you take out your magnifier, you look closer, and that s oswald. and that s when it s a relief because it is what you think it is. but there is something very difficult between rolling through a string of film and seeing that the minute differences frame by frame by frame, and suddenly everything is living on the big screen. and some ways relating that,